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Mastering Active Directory

Mastering Active Directory

By : Dishan Francis
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Mastering Active Directory

Mastering Active Directory

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By: Dishan Francis

Overview of this book

Active Directory (AD) is a centralized and standardized system that automates networked management of user data, security, and distributed resources and enables inter-operation with other directories. This book will first help you brush up on the AD architecture and fundamentals, before guiding you through core components, such as sites, trust relationships, objects, and attributes. You will then explore AD schemas, LDAP, RMS, and security best practices to understand objects and components and how they can be used effectively. Next, the book will provide extensive coverage of AD Domain Services and Federation Services for Windows Server 2016, and help you explore their new features. Furthermore, you will learn to manage your identity infrastructure for a hybrid cloud setup. All this will help you design, plan, deploy, manage operations, and troubleshoot your enterprise identity infrastructure in a secure and effective manner. You’ll later discover Azure AD Module, and learn to automate administrative tasks using PowerShell cmdlets. All along, this updated second edition will cover content based on the latest version of Active Directory, PowerShell 5.1 and LDAP. By the end of this book, you’ll be well versed with best practices and troubleshooting techniques for improving security and performance in identity infrastructures.
Table of Contents (25 chapters)
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Section 1: Active Directory Planning, Design, and Installation
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Section 2: Active Directory Administration
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Section 3: Active Directory Service Management
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Section 4: Best Practices and Troubleshooting

FSMO roles

There are five flexible single master operations roles in the Active Directory infrastructure. Each of them perform specific Active Directory tasks that other domain controllers in the infrastructure are not permitted to perform. These five FSMO roles are divided into two categories based on their operation boundaries:

Forest level

Domain level

Schema operations master

The primary domain controller (PDC) emulator operations master

Domain-naming operations master

The relative identifier (RID) operations master

N/A

The infrastructure operations master

When we create the first Active Directory forest and the first Active Directory domain, all these FSMO roles will be installed in the domain's first domain controller (obviously; there's no other place). A majority of the Active Directory infrastructures leave the default configuration...

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